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On 10 – 12 March, 2015, TrustAfrica, a Pan-African development organization, with support from other partners, held the African Higher Education summit in Dakar, Senegal. The theme of the summit was: “Revitalising higher education for Africa’s future”, and it sought to develop a common understanding on higher education as... Read more

An AGRA funded project in Nigeria is helping farmers in Nigeria achieve crop yields in line with their international counterparts. About 2000 famers involved in the project are reporting their yields have increased from 1.4 tons per ha to 4-7 ton per ha, putting them in line with international... Read more

In the last week of February and first two weeks of March 2015, AGRA, in collaboration with the Rockefeller Foundation, worked with the National Food Reserve Agency (NFRA) to pilot three technologies in Songea and Dodoma where cocoons of 525MT and 150MT were respectively launched. The technologies aim to... Read more

AGRA chairman Strive Masiyiwa has topped the Forbes 2015 list of ten most powerful men in Arica. The selection of these individuals was based on their actions in 2014 an extremely challenging year for the continent. In 2014, he led the African business community and private sector in the... Read more

AGRA’s board chair emeritus Kofi Anan visited the President of Ghana, John Mahama. A post from the president’s Facebook page said the visit afforded them the opportunity to discuss a wide range of issues. Kofi Anan was accompanied by a member of the presidential advisory group on the Economy,... Read more

Issues to consider as the African Union readies a new era of agriculture investments The end of 2014 brought the conclusion of the African Union’s Year of Agriculture and Food Security. But most Africans work in some aspect of agriculture, and for them, every year is dedicated to agriculture... Read more

Over 4200 farmers set to take part in a project testing innovative storage technologies to reduce post-harvest losses in Tanzania. The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and the Rockefeller Foundation have launched a project to test three innovative storage technologies to help the country’s smallholder farmers... Read more

NAIROBI, Kenya (1st December 2014) —Capacity Building, Knowledge Generation and Technology Dissemination are important contributors towards a food and nutrition secure Africa. This is what came out from the official opening of a 3 day conference that kicked off today at the Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya. The conference... Read more

As dawn breaks on the hills of Burera district in the wee hours of the morning, our eyes were treated to magnificent scenery of miles and miles of well planted climbing beans that at a distance could be mistaken for sorghum or maize fields. As early as six, the... Read more

The inaugural African Green Revolution Students Conference (AGRSC) was launched today at the Kenyatta University to discuss issues on capacity building for enhanced food production in Africa. Jointly organized by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), Kenyatta University, the University of Nairobi and the Horticulture Association... Read more